A week or so late, here is Bucharest Life’s Review of the Year that was 2009. January A new government, led by Traian Basescu and Little Emil Boc, installed following parliamentary elections at the end of 2008, introduces, amongst other moves of sheer political genius, a compulsory profit tax for small companies (even those that [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Presidential Election 2009’
Don’t vote if you don’t want to
Romanians go to the polls on Sunday in the first round of voting in the country’s presidential election. That much you probably know. You probably also know that just three of the candidates have any chance of making the second round a fortnight later. They are: current president Traian Basescu; PSD leader Mircea Geoana; and [...]
The Week in Bucharest: September 18
A weekly digest of news, business and sport from Bucharest and around Romania
Basescu defends record before parliament
Traian Basescu, Romania’s president, defended his record in office on Wednesday in front of a generally supine parliament. Representatives of the main opposition parties left well before the close of Basescu’s speech.
Basescu said his main achievement had been to oversee ‘unprecedented economic growth,’ and was quick to praise the current government of Emil Boc, a member of Basescu’s Democratic Liberal Party (PDL).
Basescu heavily criticised the government of Calin Popescu-Tariceanu, with which he uncomfortably cohabited for the first four years of his term.
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Vote now: Which Elena is Traian Basescu’s greatest achievement?
Traian Basescu, Romania’s president, appeared before the country’s parliament yesterday to defend his record in office, and to list his substantial number of outstanding achievements. Amongst a number of moot points, Basescu claimed that ‘nobody can deny Romania has moved forward these past five years,’ and that ‘economic growth had been incredible.’ Both true, of [...]
Desperate dictator goes shopping. Again
Increasingly desperate to prove that he is a ‘man of the people,’ Romanian president Traian Basescu yesterday went shopping at Carrefour, in a carefully planned and stage-managed attempt to boost his flailing poll ratings, badly affected by the election – which his party arranged – of his daughter Elena to the European Parliament. Perfectly timed [...]